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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus repeat?
(a) All is false and illusory.
(b) There is nothing in this world.
(c) There is something missing.
(d) There is something I know.

2. What is the director's attitude toward M'sieur Pierre?
(a) Irritated and grumbling.
(b) Aloof and distainful.
(c) Fawning and complimentary.
(d) Impartial and uncaring.

3. Who does Emmie tease during Marthe's visit?
(a) Marthe.
(b) The grandfather.
(c) Pauline.
(d) Diomedon.

4. What does the lawyer offer to Cincinnatus?
(a) An autographed photo of himself.
(b) Free services to make his will and a trust for his wife.
(c) A private meeting with the judge.
(d) Copies of the trial transcript.

5. What additional news does Cincinnatus get at the same time?
(a) He will be moved to a roomier cell.
(b) He will be allowed to meet with his wife.
(c) He will be allowed to choose the time of his execution.
(d) He will be given an extra daily dessert.

6. After Cincinnatus gets the news about the new prisoner, what does his cot seem to change into?
(a) A door.
(b) A bush.
(c) A boat.
(d) A horse.

7. What is Rodrig Ivanovich holding after Cincinnatus reads the letter?
(a) A large apple.
(b) A carving knife.
(c) A wall calendar.
(d) A desk lamp.

8. On the eighth day, how much of Cincinnatus' pencil is used up?
(a) About half.
(b) More than a third.
(c) Almost two-thirds.
(d) Exactly one quarter.

9. What does Pierre say was the main evidence against him?
(a) A pair of broken glasses.
(b) A notepad with notes from a phone call on it.
(c) A drawing with his marks on it.
(d) A glove he left behind.

10. What color is the letter Cincinnatus receives when he wakes?
(a) Vermillion.
(b) Lilac.
(c) Ebony.
(d) Taupe.

11. What unnatural event from Cincinnatus' childhood does he describe?
(a) A man getting up to help him, and his shadow not following right away.
(b) A bird flying up into the sky and becoming a cloud.
(c) A spider growing larger and larger, and then turning into a bus.
(d) A woman singing and gradually becoming a chorus and then an orchestra.

12. Why does Cincinnatus start to go for a walk?
(a) He sees a light down the hallway.
(b) He wants to sneak away.
(c) Rodion suggests it.
(d) Emmie beckons to him.

13. What happens when Marthe's grandfather goes to light Marthe's father's cigarette?
(a) He drops the lighter.
(b) The lighter goes out.
(c) He can't make the lighter alight.
(d) Marthe's father lights the cigarette first.

14. How does the judge deliver Cincinnatus' sentence?
(a) He writes it on a piece of paper and gives it to Cincinnatus' attorney.
(b) He puts up a sign over the window.
(c) He whispers it in Cincinnatus' ear.
(d) He shouts it out to the courtroom.

15. What does Pierre say when Cincinnatus asks if he is telling the truth?
(a) That he often lies, but not about this.
(b) That he's insulted by the question.
(c) That he never lies.
(d) That he can neither confirm nor deny it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cincinnatus describe as discovering, as he takes off layer after layer of his clothes/himself?

2. Who does Rodrig Ivanovich seem to transform into?

3. What does the director say is wrong with Roman Vissarionovich?

4. Who turns the cell light out?

5. What is reflected in the mirror of the wardrobe that Marthe brings with her?

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